Pakistani Minister Passes Off Old Videos From Haryana, Telangana As Kashmir

Pakistan's Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs, Ali Haider Zaidi tweeted on Sunday old videos and falsely claimed they showed Indian security forces using excessive force on civilians in Kashmir.

Ali Haider Zaidi compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Hitler while also urging US President Donald Trump to consider levying trade sanctions on India.

The nearly two minute long clip comprises of two separate videos, one shot outdoors showing security forces lathi charge men and women while another shot indoors, shows a distraught woman with a toddler.

A separate audio track of a woman making a plea to the prime minister to punish culprits of a crime has been overlaid on the video.

Let the world see what @narendramodi Govt is doing in #Kashmir
The #Hitler from the East rises while the world sleeps.@realDonaldTrump should consider imposing trade sanctions on India to control this monster before it’s too late! #SaveKashmirFromModi #IndianHitlerModi pic.twitter.com/YS5kBZAmk1

— Ali Haider Zaidi (@AliHZaidiPTI) August 18, 2019

Click here to view an archived version of the tweet.

BOOM broke the video into key frames and found that the first clip is over two years old and dates back to August 2017 at least.

It was uploaded to the internet around the third week of August in 2017. The audio of a woman who can be heard in Zaidi's video cannot be found in the original videos.

Caption of the video on the internet suggest it shows police and para military forces lathi charge supporters of controversial godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who turned violent after a special CBI court convicted the Dera Sacha Sauda head in a rape case. (Read more about it here)

Must Watch: How police did Lathi charge on Ram Rahim bhakts and beat the crap out of them for creating ruckus. Hats off to haryana police! pic.twitter.com/B1jWuYBD67

— Certified Engineer (@Engihumor) August 31, 2017

The second clip showing a distraught woman clutching a toddler is from August 2018.

BOOM traced the video to a Mirror Now news article from August 31, 2018.

"A policeman in Telangana was caught beating his wife and mother-in-law mercilessly in front of a crowd after he was confronted over an illicit relationship. A case has been filed and the man is on the run," Mirror Now reported.

This is not the first time Ali Haider Zaidi has published misinformation surrounding Kashmir. The minister had earlier tweeted an old video from the funeral of slain militant Burhan Wani and claimed it was millions of Kashmiris protesting against the Indian government’s recent decision to change the status of Jammu and Kashmir.

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